People
A business is nothing without people. Great people is the single biggest success factor to any business. We all have different strengths, weaknesses, preferences and blind spots. Our approach is to understand the people inthe business, this in turn helps effectively manage the business.
We help managers to create and develop strong and committed teams. We work closely with business owners and managers to help them, help them help their people and help their people to be the best they can.
Plans
"Failing to plan is planning to Fail" - we see this often. "Aim for nothing and hit it every time" - is a regular feature of agriculture.
Our approach is to create plans with measurable action items across a range of work activites, whether it's financial performance, a production system or management of risk, performance is always better with a plan! We develop plans with out clients to ensure that performance occurs and risk is managed.
Performance
The best strategy, the best plans, the best ideas are all meaningless if they cannot be implemented. Often we see the 'implementation gap' where a business owner knows exactly what they need to do, how they need to do it and when it needs to occur, yet rarely do they achieve what they know they should.
Our approach is to define the key aspects of performance, ensure adequate organisation, resources and management controls within the team. Further, each performance should be subject to a continuous improvement review to ensure that performances improve over time!
Profit
One obvious measure of a farm business success is profit. We work with our clients to improve their profit over the long term. We measure profit performance and strategically reinvest profit to ensure businesses continue to grow.
Profit is nice but not the most important thing! As a business, we make profit and target to give away 15% of our profit each year to those in the world who need it much more than we do.
